[PDF] Top 20 CLIVAR Exchanges No 23 Special issue on: Tropical Extratropical Interactions

... southeastern tropical Indian Ocean intensify the summer monsoon circulation in the experiment con- ducted to study the positive IOD ...eastern tropical Indian Ocean causes reduction in convection during the ... See full document

... (tree-rings, tropical and non-tropical corals, speleothems, lake sediments, vermetid reefs, ...This Exchanges contribution is a short summary of the review of Luterbacher et ... See full document

... Western boundary currents play an essential role in releasing heat originally coming from the tropical oceans to the atmosphere. They play a key role in modulating regional climates in Japan and Australia, as ... See full document

... the tropical southeast- ern Atlantic, a region capable of impacting Equatorial Afri- can climate ...including interactions with mid-latitudes, and this aspect also requires considera- ... See full document

... the tropical At- lantic variability should involve the coupling of possi- bly unknown processes, the PIRATA proposal included, from the outset, the suggestion that one attribute, the so- called “dipole mode”, ... See full document

... of tropical and mid-latitude climate and identified the southeast Pacific and Weddell Sea regions where the SIE is most responsive to extrapolar climate vari- ability (Yuan and Martinson, ...the tropical ... See full document

... Following the research approach we used above, Fig- ure 1 (page 17) shows the regression patterns of the monthly mean precipitation, sea-level pressure and surface wind upon the corresponding principal component of the ... See full document

... the tropical Pacific are ...eastern tropical Pacific during an El Niño in a much larger scale than in ...eastern tropical Pacific also appears in the correlation map from the coupled model ... See full document

... latitude North Atlantic, or “pulled” by Ekman transports in the Southern Ocean and/or diapycnal mixing in the ocean interior, temporal anomalies in MOC are likely to be confined to the hemisphere in which they are gener- ... See full document

... TAO/TRITON captured the basin scale develop- ment of warm conditions in the tropical Pacific in early 2002 with considerable detail. In April 2002 (most recent full month for which data are available), SSTs were ... See full document

... The CLIVAR SSG recommended to publish the Initial CLIVAR Implementation Plan in two ...of CLIVAR ‘key scientists’ and the draft was circulat- ...a special emphasis on implementation ... See full document

... On the last day, a conference statement was adopted. In the statement the participants noted that although under- standing of Pacific climate variabilities, such as ENSO events, had advanced significantly during the ... See full document

... of Tropical Systems (ARTS) promotes the synthesis of paleoclimatic with instrumental and modelling perspec- tives to address significant uncertainties in our under- standing of tropical climate ... See full document

... The DPC-9 meeting in Brest was held within the context of the Analysis, Interpretation, Synthesis and Modelling (AIMS) phase that WOCE has just entered. Most of the scientific seminars and reports of the DPC committee ... See full document

... strated by its ability to provide data that firstly showed the evolution of subsurface temperature anomalies and secondly was very useful for initializing models for successful prediction of the future evolution. “El ... See full document

... In July 1995 when the International CLIVAR Project Office (ICPO) opened in Hamburg for the first time it had Dr Michael Coughlan at the helm as the Director. Mike, a meteorologist by training, is with the Austra- ... See full document

... Rainy-season onset date is usually defined using thresholds for estimating the first wet spell of the season (i.e. Dodd and Jolliffe, 2001). Restriction to large rainfall amounts and/or long wet spells help to reduce the ... See full document

... the CLIVAR NEGs) to investigate ways of obtaining improved assessments of regional changes, ...within CLIVAR itself (as undertaken by CLIVAR NEG-1), the WCRP generally, ...IGBP/GAIM. ... See full document

... the tropical region but also to the atmospheric and oceanic conditions over the world through interactions with the monsoon ...1999), tropical cyclones ...the tropical western Pacific during ... See full document

... wind-terrain interactions over the Maritime Continent region may lead to local rainfall-ENSO relationships that vary among different sub-regions during northern winter, when the region is affected by cold surges ... See full document